Accusing Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit of “spoiling” Indo-Pak relations by inviting Kashmiri separatists, the Nationalist Congress Party on Monday demanded that he be sent back to Pakistan.
“We condemn the callous attitude of Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit who has been trying for the last two years, while being posted in New Delhi, to spoil the relations between India and Pakistan by inviting Kashmiri separatists,” state NCP chief and former minister Thakur Randhir Singh told reporters here.
He also hit out at Mr. Basit for his recent remarks that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed one between India and Pakistan and it needs to be resolved.
Referring to Saturday’s deadly militant attack on a CRPF convoy and Mr. Basit’s silence over the issue, Singh said, “He (Basit) did not even have a few words to condemn the death of these martyrs whereas, India stood with Pakistan when some school children were killed by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants in Peshawar.”
Referring to the recent killing of qawal Amjad Sabri in Karachi by gun-trotting militants, Mr Singh wondered which direction Pakistan was headed for.
The NCP condemned the deadliest militant attack in the Valley in the recent times in which eight security personnel were killed and 24 injured after LeT operatives opened fire at a CRPF convoy at Pampore on the outskirts of Srinagar. - PTI
